Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chile. Still stable, but undergoing a barrage of Castro and Communist propaganda (one-third of the "relief" Cuba sent after the earthquakes last May turned out to be revolutionary pamphlets). The leader of Chile's main labor confederation, orating over the coffins of two men killed in labor violence three weeks ago, threatened that Santiago would become "the Sierra Maestra" of Chile...
Brazil. Despite inflationary troubles, still the strongest Latin American nation and most resistant to propaganda from Cuba. What little admiration Brazilians feel for Castro arises mostly out of the Cuban dictator's role as a fearless tweaker of Uncle Sam's nose-a role that President-elect Jânio Quadros appropriated last week by ignoring the invitation of President Eisenhower and refusing the invitation of President-elect Kennedy to visit...
With the same weapons that made life unbearable for Dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba's new revolutionaries are setting out to make nightmares for the new dictator. Not a day passes without a bomb explosion in Havana-a grenade tossed inside the Capitol Building, a Molotov cocktail splashed against a government Jeep. One night last week bombs exploded in a water main, a power transformer, a government-operated filling station, several shops...
Unless Soviet Russia is willing to underwrite a bigger share of Cuba's economy, weapons may be all Castro has before long. Faced with an almost 50% drop in foreign exchange in the past year, the U.S. trade boycott, and the loss of $150 million from the discontinued U.S. sugar bonus, Economic Czar "Che" Guevara flew behind the Iron Curtain last month for help to avert economic disaster. Czechoslovakia agreed to double its aid, bringing the total to $40 million. But estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year...
Noisy Abroad. What Castro does get is assistance in his propaganda war against "Yankee imperialism." In Washington last year, President López Mateos called the Cuban revolution nationalist nonCommunist. Eight months later, when Cuba's touring puppet President turned up in Mexico after having been rebuffed en route by Argentina's President Frondizi and Venezuela's Betancourt, López Mateos went down to the airport, gave him a warm abrazo and a warm word: "We are linked to Cuba by similar aspirations for justice." At the Organization of American States' San José meeting...